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Man arrested in Marathon gas station shooting

A man police say is responsible for a fatal December shooting connected to a botched marijuana buy was arrested Monday.

Matthew Grey, 23, was arrested on felony murder charges after police say he shot and killed Antoine Davis Dec. 9 during a drug deal at the Marathon gas station on South Adams Street.

Davis was meeting Grey at the gas station to sell him marijuana when the two got into a scuffle, court records say. During the fight, Grey shot Davis twice, once in the chest at point-blank range and a second time in the back of the neck.

Witnesses said they saw a man matching Grey's description fleeing the scene. He lives three blocks from the gas station, court records show.

Several plastic baggies were located around Davis' body, records say. One of the bags contained marijuana.

Witnesses reported seeing Davis packaging marijuana at the gas station. They told police he said he was meeting someone to sell the drugs.

Davis' phone records show he was communicating with two telephone numbers that he had no contact with until 30 minutes before the shooting.

One of those numbers was Grey's and police were able to determine it was utilizing a cell phone tower near the gas station just prior to the shooting, but was turned off permanently after it occurred. He communicated with Davis 12 times in the 30 minutes before the shooting.

A week after the shooting, Grey was questioned at Tallahassee Police Department headquarters where his story changed several times. He initially denied owning the cell phone that had been turned off, but later admitted it was his.

He also told police he was not present during the shooting, but said he talked to Davis about buying marijuana before abandoning the purchase. He told investigators he was at the hospital with his girlfriend and their daughter during the incident.

Grey could not explain why his phone was at the scene of the shooting or why it was turned off immediately afterward, court records say.

His alibi was refuted by video from the hospital showing the girlfriend and daughter, but not Grey.

The girlfriend told investigators Grey called her "in a panic" the night of the shooting for her to come and get him and her brother, who lives with the couple. She said the two were nervous and quiet when she picked them up.

Alan Crotzer was cleared as a suspect in the shooting in January by the data logged on his court-ordered GPS anklet.

Davis and the 54-year-old Crotzer were involved in a shooting where police say Crotzer followed him in his car before opening fire as the two drove down Apalachee Parkway in a 2012 incident.

After the December shooting, the data contained on the GPS device showed Crotzer, who was exonerated in 2006 after spending nearly 25 years in prison, was nowhere near where the crime occurred.